Hydroclimatology of dual-peak annual cholera incidence: Insights from a spatially explicit model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bertuzzo, E ^a   Mari, L ^a   Righetto, L ^a   Gatto, M ^b   Casagrandi, R ^b   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^c   Rinaldo, A ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; FLOW OF WATER;

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; FORCINGS; HUMAN COMMUNITIES; HYDROCLIMATOLOGY; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER NETWORK; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SPREADING; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; TIME-SCALES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DISEASES;

BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; CHOLERA; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER FLOW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTH ASIA;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84858193768     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050723     Document Type: Article

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